Chapter 72: There’s an Old Man Guo in the South of the Village
Rat wolf, i.e. skunk. Weasel, everywhere, like a rat and long tail, fur is mostly yellow, occasionally gray, brown, black spots, its gas is extremely shame, its brutality, can cause people to lose their minds. This thing is good at fighting rats and animals, and can control snakes and vipers. Sexual sensitivity and cunning, every time more into the essence of the monster also, good at confusing people's minds, inducing them to act erratically, making people crazy. Often borrowing people's hearts and souls to speak out their words, and those who suffer from it are mostly soft-hearted, weak and sickly people. The people of the world know very little about it, and most of them are harmed by it without knowing it. However there are some disadvantages and some advantages. ……
–The Book of Foreign Lands: Demons and Evils
In the remnants of the Book of Different Lands, I found this passage, which looked as if it was talking about the yellow wolves, so that night, I seriously pondered over it for half the night before falling into a deep sleep in a state of half-understanding.
When I woke up the next day, it was almost noon. After all, I didn't sleep the night before, and yesterday I slept for more than three hours in the early hours of the morning, and last night I pondered over the passage in the Book of Other Places until eleven o'clock. So this sleep was very sweet.
After I opened my eyes, I didn't stay under the blanket for a moment, and sat up violently, secretly scolding myself for not being vigilant at all, ah, in case something happens, how can it be good? I hurriedly put on my clothes, without washing my face, and rushed to the hall to eat.
I'm not worried about what will happen to our family, it's obvious, isn't it? If something really happened at home, parents or grandpa should have woken me up long ago, and still let me sleep so peacefully until now? The problem is that the brothers and sisters must not be out of the house ah! Last night in Han Zelin's home that scene is really shocking, unexpected.
I'm going out after a few mouthfuls of rice.
As the saying goes, sharpening the knife is not a good idea, I didn't rush to my brothers' house to see if anything had happened. Rather, I chose to go to Hu Laoshi, from his mouth to understand clearly the yellow wolf son of the matter, as well as how to deal with how to prevent, this is the focus. If you don't understand these words, then what can be done when something happens in the brothers' home? You can't just run to Yangshu Slope with a stick, aimlessly waving it and declaring war on the yellow wolves, right?
Oh yes, Hu Laoshi last night from Han Zelin's home out of the time, seems to say that the yellow wolf is not a spirit, but a strange, but really fucking let me wonder, is this spirit and the strange and what is the difference?
He also said that he wanted me to go to the south end of the village Guo old man, I find him to do what? What am I looking for him for? He's just a lonely old man. To be honest, he has no children, no daughter, no companion, no one to take care of him, and his ability to survive is still so tenacious, he's over 80 years old, what's the point of living? The village committee also pitied him, it gave the arrangement of a pump house to watch the work, all year round except winter, other time are living in the pump house in the north. Could it be that just because he lived alone in the wilderness for a long time, he was familiar with those lonely souls and wild ghosts, evil spirits and monsters?
Thinking about these questions in my head, I walked to the door of Hu Laoshi's house, the broken old fence gate is even locked. Grandma, in the middle of the day, where can he go? I was puzzled, but Chang Hanqiang's mother went out from the house with a bowl of rice, saw me in front of Hu Laoshi's house, and said, "Yo, Yinle, what are you doing here? What are you doing here? Do you have something to do with Hu Laoshi?"
"Well, I don't know what he's doing, but he's not at home at this time of the day." I replied, thinking to myself, "Why don't we go to Guo Laohan's house in the south end and ask him? Maybe that old man is old and knows a lot, and he can really help.
Chang Hanqiang his mother while his mouth pulling rice and vegetables, while the child walked to my front, mysteriously whispered: "Hey, just let the village west head Quan Bao son called away, I heard that ah, as if it is Quan Bao daughter-in-law let the vixen to haunt the whole day, crying all the time, and sometimes the disease came up, but also drop pots and pans smashed bowls and hit the child, you do not know, this day, the whole child to come to the Bao, the brow is still on the top of the head. You don't know, this day Quan Bao child came, the brow is still topped with a big lump, must be his mother ……"
"Ah, I know, I know, Auntie, you eat, I have something to do, I'm leaving first!" I can not stand these old ladies to create rumors, endless ah, and certainly add oil and vinegar. In Chang Hanqiang's mother's somewhat dissatisfied eyes and nagging, I followed the edge of the canal to the south. It seems that most of the old ladies in the countryside have a particularly strong love of some gossip, and extremely good at talking about the wind is rain, hyperbole and metaphor that is the use of the best, which is probably the village rumors can not be trusted, right?
Guo Laohan's home is actually two dilapidated cottage, even a courtyard wall street door are not, in the southern most edge of the village, next to a large area of arable land in the south of the village, the door is a threshing floor, the village jokes, the village did not have a yard than the yard of the family Guo Laohan home big.
Looking at Guo Lao Han live in the house from afar, I can not help but pity the old man, widowed old man over really difficult ah! This winter, who is not the chimney out of the smoke, the house try to burn hot. But look at Guo old man's home from the window out of the chimney, a bit of heat is not, is the old man did not even burn the stove?
Walked to the door, looking at the half-hidden wooden door, I called out, "Grandpa Guo, Grandpa Guo is not?"
"Ahem …… in, who is it?" Guo old man's feeble voice came out from the house.
I pushed open the door and walked in, a choking smell of Chinese herbal medicine came to my face, I couldn't help but raise my hand to cover my nose, only to see a few pieces of obsolete furniture simply placed inside the house, the casserole for simmering medicines was still on the stove, which held half a pot of medicines, black and slimy, already in a semi-frozen state, it looked like it had been put away for a long time.
Guo old man lying in the northeast corner of the dirt kang, two exposed cotton rags mattress over the body, under the mattress laid thick straw, revealing the length of different messy broken grass. At this time, Guo's old man's face was yellow, wrinkles covered his cheeks, his gray and thinning hair was messy on his head, his eyes were dull, and his eye sockets were deep-set. He forcefully propped up his body to sit up, his mouth said, "Hey, it's the Da Niu family's oldest two ah? Ahem ……"
Seeing him like this, anyone will not be able to resist conscience, I hurriedly went forward to help him, helped him sit up, have taken the side of the dirty bar like cotton coat to him draped over his shoulders, which said: "Grandpa Guo, you're sick, right? How also do not go to see a doctor ah, see this winter, even the stove is out, how cold ah!"
"Ai, the old disease ……" Guo old man panted and said, "The stove went out this morning, I do not have pain in my body, too lazy to get up to make a fire, alas . …old cluck, dying ……"
I laughed bitterly, this is not to find work for themselves? Let's get into it, this day no matter how have to help him to the stove to the birth of ah! Thinking of this, I said: "Grandpa Guo, you lie down and rest, I will help you put the stove on." After saying that, I got up and went to the stove, took out the matches, packed up the stove, found charcoal, put in the honeycomb coal, and started to build the stove.
Guo Laohan was naturally overjoyed, who in the village would normally have nothing to do to visit him? Guo Laohan watched me work, half lying on the bed and said, "Son, your name is Yinle, right?"
"Yes, yes." I turned around and gave him a smile, lighting a handful of straw and stuffing it under the stove.
"Oh, Yinle ah, you came to me here today for something else, right?" Guo old man is very self-aware said: "not in a hurry to make a fire, my old bones are used to freezing, you say what is the matter, to see if I can still help? Ahem ……"
I said this old bones, hand is not able to help, can only count on you that brain things. I said: "It's not a big deal, let's just nagging ah, I'm here with a fire, we nagged ……" The straw under the stove burned strong, I picked up a few pieces of charcoal stuffed in, and then plugged the mouth, then said: "This is the case, this two days a group of young people on the Yangshu slope to go down the clip to catch the yellow wolves, did not think it, in the temple encountered a group of yellow wolves ghost wit, confused people, almost did not Yao Mingtang's children to death, was killed by us three, and the result of the yellow wolves chased to the village children scourge of the people, and last night almost Han Zelin daughter-in-law to the confusing hangings! ……"
"Hmm? Yang Shu Po, Tai Sui Temple?" Guo Laohan frowned, interrupting me and asked, "Isn't there, ahem …… a large yellow wolf, with golden fur and a black hair on its spine?"
"Yes, yes, yes! That's right, it's it, tempting Han Zelin's daughter-in-law to hang herself!" I nodded my head in agreement! As soon as we said this, Guo immediately knew who the culprit was, so he really is a master! I said, "You really know? No wonder Old Man Hu asked me to come to you, I really found the right person."
Guo Laohan looked at me with surprise and said, "Why did Hu Laoshi ask you to find me? Just to ask this?"
"This ……" I was stunned for a moment, and then said, "This is not worried about those yellow wolves again scourge people, our gang of young people, there have been several families have let the yellow wolves to steal the chickens and ducks, make a mess, so I thought about how to clean up the yellow wolves, but we don't know much about that stuff, so I looked for Hu Lao Si, who told me to look for you, saying that you know more about the things in that area."
"Oh, so ah." Guo Lao Han nodded, then stopped talking and fell into deep thought.
I look at his appearance seems to be thinking about something, also stopped talking, afraid of disturbing his thoughts, after all, old age, forgetfulness, let him think about it, my side of the stove.
The stove is not damp, so it is also good to build a fire, not long, I end down the casserole to see, inside the honeycomb coal has been red, at the same time the casserole will continue to be placed on the top, simmering medicines, packing up the straw on the ground thrown out, charcoal is also put back behind the door, will be the wind door wide open, so that the stove is well burned, the house is gradually warmed up.